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    The pot of tea is almost empty, and the little plate of snacks most definitely is. The insects creak and buzz outside in the darkness, and between them an exhausted silence blooms.
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    With their latest trial by fire behind them, Jinshi and Maomao take a moment to breathe.

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    09 Jul 2026

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    Maomao is a med school drop out, working at the Verdigris strip club where she also runs a free illegal clinic to help those who can't afford medical care. One night she treats Gyokuyou - fiance to a rich business man and suddenly she finds herself drawn into the world of the upper class.

    An alternate modern setting where Jinshi and Maomao meet under different - but slightly similar - circumstances and their feelings develop all the same.

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    I don't normally write AUs but I could not for the life of me get this concept out of my head. Please enjoy another pointless fluff, slowburn for our favorite JinMao <3

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    05 Jul 2026

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    Jinshi is terribly aware most people don’t love the way he does - case in point, he’s picked a single wood-sorrel when he could’ve had a blossom of every variety if he so chose. While he of course feels some male pride seeing Maomao pregnant and knowing he did that, more than anything he feels a deep love and curiosity for the child, and immeasurable appreciation for his wife. It's fascinating to know they created something that didn’t exist, and now they would be responsible for guiding it through the world. He would be a father.

    So what was a good father?

    Or, Jinshi's on the cusp of fatherhood, and then he's just plain in it. Meanwhile, the rest of the world keeps spinning.

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    29 Jun 2026

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    “Maomao?” He presses, fingers closing over hers and lowering their joined hands to her lap, and she blinks in surprise at the use of her name. “What is it? What’s wrong?”

    “Their technique is sloppy,” she answers honestly. “I feel strain on my heart. They should have targeted the nervous system instead.”

    Master Jinshi stares at her like she’s spoken a foreign language he can’t even begin to try and understand. She tries to explain.

    “Certain snake venoms cause coagulation of the blood, which could have been effective and made the blood unable to move through my veins, but if the end result is simply making my heart stop beating by targeting the muscles involv-”

    “Maomao,” Master Jinshi says, very calmly, “I need you to stop speaking now.”

    (an assassin tries to kill jinshi with a poisoned blade that gets maomao instead) (she is obviously much less concerned about this than everyone else)

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    27 Jun 2026

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    Jinshi has always sparkled for others, but Maomao has never been mesmerized by it. It was just another thing she was immune to. Now here he was, not particularly sparkly, just obviously in love, and Maomao felt what she could only describe as being enraptured.

    Maomao knew she needed to say thank you, but at this moment she did not trust her tongue with words. She was afraid something rather mushy would come to her if she tried to speak, and she wasn’t ready for that yet. Which felt silly to acknowledge - that she had married this man, but was struggling to love him.

    And it was not loving him - Maomao had deduced this now. It had almost nothing to do with Jinshi at all. Her constipation with regards to her own ability to love had nothing to do with her commitment to him, either. She cared for and admired him deeply, more than she had anyone else, except maybe Loumen. Maomao hopes someday she is able to admit that to him, but she is still accepting that it is even safe to admit to herself.

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    they say the first year of marriage is the hardest - this is Maomao's.

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    27 Jun 2026